Early Whitesnake stalwarts Micky Moody and Neil Murray have teamed up with Chris Ousey (Heartland), Laurie Wisefield (ex Wishbone Ash, Tina Turner), Adam Wakeman (Ozzy Osbourne) and Harry James (Thunder) to form Snakecharmer. They are releasing a self-titled album of original material via Frontier Records, due on January 22nd in North America and January 25th in Europe.

More or less the 4th band created by M&M based on Whitesnake…is there a meaning? No…the only good thing is they are making an album with new songs but stop puttin’ a snake in every project…and from what I can hear they sound like just another Whitesnake bad copy…I need something more peculiar and personal to listen to but most of the classic rock bands keep on copying themsleves to the end…I think you could have your own style and keep on writing diversify and, most of all, inspiered great songs…in the last 10 years this happen always less often…

Love the music, faultless. Much better than anything that Coverdale has done in years (sadly).

Not keen on the vocal, though. There are enough rock vocalists already that sound as though they are straining with bowel problems. They need someone with a distinctive voice that is immediately identifiable when you switch the radio on (like Gillan, RJD, Ozzy, Jon Anderson etc.).